130 INDIA OF MY DREAMS

(Note: The average quantity of milk that the
cow in India yields is said to be roughly 2 lbs. per day,
that of New Zealand 14 lbs., of England 15 lbs., of
Holland 20 lbs. The index figure for health goes up
in proportion to the increase in the yield of milk.)

Harijan, 31-8-'47

I am amazed at our partiality for buffalo milk and
ghee. Our economics is short-sighted. We look at the im-
mediate gain, but we do not realize that in the last analysis
the cow is the more valuable animal. Cow's butter (and
ghee) has a naturally yellowish colour which indicates
its superiority to buffalo butter (and ghee) in carotene.
It has a flavour all its own. Foreign visitors who come to
Sevagram go into raptures over the pure cow's milk they
get there. Buffalo milk and butter are almost unknown
in Europe. It is only in India that one finds a prejudice
in favour of buffalo milk and ghee. This has spelt all
but extinction of the cow, and that is why I say that,
unless we put an exclusive emphasis on the cow, she can-
not be saved.
Harijan, 8-2-'42